Daniel Fitzgerald

Daniel Fitzgerald was an Irish Republican Army member and the owner of a large whiskey distillery in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Biography
Daniel Fitzgerald was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom to an Irish Catholic family, coming from a family that had owned a brewery in the city for 90 years. Fitzgerald managed the brewery himself when the time came, and he distilled 2,000,000 gallons of Irish whiskey a year, with 80% of his customers being Americans before Prohibition began in 1920. In July 1921, he met American crime boss Enoch Thompson when he arrived in Ireland with a dozen Tommy guns and a business proposition for the IRA; Fitzgerald was unwilling to export whiskey to the USA due to Sinn Fein leader John McGarrigle's opposition to the action. After McGarrigle's murder and Bill Neilan's takeover, Fitzgerald began to sell whiskey to Thompson.